U.S. Attorney General William Barr is facing criticism Thursday after comments he made a day prior in which he said calls for a national lockdown to prevent further spread of COVID-19 were the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties” in American history “other than slavery.” The comments came as the CDC and President Donald Trump continued to issue contradicting statements on vaccines and mask-wearing..

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It's 'now or never' for ex-Trump aides weighing speaking out

WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Neumann wrestled with the decision for weeks. She worried about the backlash, the impact it would have on her career, potential threats to her family.

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Trump shifts focus to Pennsylvania to shore up reelection

HARRISBURG, Pa. – President Donald Trump's campaign has grown increasingly focused on making inroads in Pennsylvania to offset potential vulnerabilities in other battlegrounds. The president will travel to the state for the second time in a week on Saturday, hoping to attract the same rural and white working-class voters who delivered him a narrow victory here in 2016.

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The Latest: Australia's Victoria health chief quits in probe

Virus cases rise in US heartland, home to anti-mask feelings— California virus hospitalizations could surge in next month— Madrid resists government pressure to extend soft lockdown— Cities around the U.K. are imposing new coronavirus restrictions as they race to slow the spread of COVID-19, and London could be next.

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U.S. surpasses 7 million coronavirus cases as Midwest states become latest hotspots

United States has now recorded over seven million confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus to date as America continues to lead the world in infections at a steady pace.Public health data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows the U.S. hit 7,005,746 cases on Friday afternoon.The milestone also comes three days after the country’s death toll surpassed 200,000.

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Landlords suing to push back against eviction ban

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – As millions of Americans struggle to pay their rent during the coronavirus pandemic, landlords are going to courts, claiming that the national eviction moratorium unfairly strains their finances and violates their property rights.At least 26 such lawsuits have been filed by property owners this year, including several federal challenges of President Donald Trump’s directive, delivered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that broadly prevents evictions through the end of 2020.In Memphis, seven landlords who together manage or own more than 5,000 rental units sued this month, accusing Trump and other federal officials of unconstitutionally violating their due process protections and wrongly preempting state

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Trump's coronavirus remarks weigh on minds of senior voters

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – President Donald Trump’s remarks at a campaign event in Ohio this week reverberated all the way to a sparkling waterfront in Florida, where senior citizens parsed his assessment of the coronavirus pandemic.Trump said that COVID-19 was seriously affecting “virtually nobody” under the age of 18 and sought to frame the pandemic as largely impacting older Americans, as he argued for school districts to resume in-person learning.“Now we know it affects elderly people with heart problems and other problems,” Trump said.

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GOP duo reshapes Montana politics to match Trump's vision

BOZEMAN, Mont. – Steve Daines is the affable one, the smiler, a consummate salesman who parlayed his corporate success into a meteoric rise through Montana politics and a seat in the U.S. Senate.His former boss, Greg Gianforte, is more brusque, sometimes even harsh, a self-made technology mogul whose political career has proved rockier and included a stinging defeat for governor and unwanted notoriety when he assaulted a reporter during a successful run for U.S.

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Covid vaccine by year-end will be fastest ever in history for novel pathogen: US

WASHINGTON : A vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the year will be the fastest pace for a novel pathogen in history, the White House said on Thursday, asserting that it has been the goal of the administration and it is still on track for that."We do expect to have a vaccine by the end of the year.

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President Trump asks Supreme Court for fast action in census case ahead of January deadline

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for fast action on its effort, blocked by a lower court, to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to determine how many congressional seats each state gets.In court papers filed Tuesday, the administration suggested the court hear arguments in the case in December, potentially with a new justice appointed by President Donald Trump in place.

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Trump supporters line up more than 17 hours before president’s arrival in Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Air Force One and President Donald Trump will be on their way to Jacksonville on Thursday for a rally ahead of the November election. The Great American Comeback Rally is happening at Cecil Airport on Jacksonville’s Westside at 7 p.m., although dozens of supporters lined up for the rally by 5 a.m.

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GOP senators see political, principle gain in court fight

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump marveled at a rally this week about how important Supreme Court nominations are to voters. But Senate Republicans are with the voters on that.

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Donald Trump says he could reject tighter rules for covid vaccine approvals

coronavirus vaccine, a move that could increase concerns that the race to find a Covid-19 shot is being politicized ahead of the presidential election.The Food and Drug Administration is expected to soon issue final guidelines for an emergency-use authorization. Regulators and drugmakers have in recent weeks vowed to adhere to science, not politics, in deciding when a vaccine is ready to reach the market.At a news conference on Wednesday, Trump said it “sounds like a political move" when asked whether the FDA was considering stricter standards for an authorization, suggesting that the White House could intercede if it thought the agency was too rigorous.“That has to be approved by the White House," Trump said.

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Trump declines to commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses election

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election.“We’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said at a news conference, responding to a question about whether he’d commit to a peaceful transfer of power.

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FDA chief says 'science will guide' decision on coronavirus vaccine approval

WASHINGTON (AP) - A huge international study of a COVID-19 vaccine that aims to work with just one dose is getting underway as top U.S. health officials sought Wednesday to assure a skeptical Congress and public that they can trust any shots the government ultimately approves.Hopes are high that answers about at least one of several candidates being tested in the U.S.

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Trump won't commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election.“We’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said at a news conference, responding to a question about whether he’d commit to a peaceful transfer of power.

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Donald Trump claims coronavirus 'affects barely anybody' as US death toll passes 200,000

Donald Trump has downplayed the extent of the coronavirus pandemic as his own country passed the grim milestone of 200,000 dead.As the US presidential election in November approaches fast, America's Commander In Chief has looked to convince voters that the worst of the disease has passed.Speaking in an interview with a local Fox station in Detroit in the crucial swing state of Michigan, President Trump again tried to minimise the danger of Covid-19."I think we've done an amazing job...

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GOP-led Senate committees issue report on Bidens, Ukraine

WASHINGTON – Two Republican-led Senate committees issued a politically charged report Wednesday on the work Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son did in Ukraine. Biden’s campaign immediately panned the report, released six weeks before the election, as an effort by an ally of President Donald Trump to damage his election opponent.Trump has repeatedly drawn attention to the issue even as his own administration has warned of a concerted Russian effort to denigrate Biden and asserted that a Ukrainian lawmaker who is involved in spreading anti-Biden claims is an “active Russian agent."Republican Sen.

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How Trump’s attacks on science led to over 200,000 dead from coronavirus

Donald Trump said.Huddled with aides in the West Wing last week, his eyes fixed on Fox News, Trump wasn’t talking about how he had led the nation through the deadliest pandemic in a century. In a conversation overheard by an Associated Press reporter, Trump was describing how he’d just publicly rebuked one of his top scientists — Dr.

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Senate GOP plans vote on Trump's court pick before election

WASHINGTON – Votes in hand, Senate Republicans are charging ahead with plans to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat before the Nov. 3 election, launching a divisive fight over Democratic objections before a nominee is even announced.Trump said Tuesday he will name his choice Saturday, confident of support.

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Coronavirus: Trump says his administration has saved ‘millions of lives,’ makes no mention of reaching 200,000 deaths in U.S.

During a campaign rally in Pittsburgh, U.S.

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World leaders clash over coronavirus during virtual United Nations meeting

U.N. chief exhorted them to unite and tackle the era’s towering problems: the coronavirus, the “economic calamity” it unleashed and the risk of a new Cold War between the United States and China.As Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the first virtual “general debate” of the U.N.

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Coronavirus: Trump calls 200,000 American COVID-19 deaths ‘a shame,’ defends response to virus

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Coronavirus: Mike Pence recognizes grim milestone of 200,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths

During a rally in Gilford, N.H. on Tuesday, Vice-President Mike Pence recognized the United States’ grim milestone of reaching 200,000 deaths due to the novel coronavirus.

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Federal judge declines to stay ruling on Pennsylvania crowd size

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (Office of Gov. Tom Wolf)PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday declined to stay his own ruling that Gov.

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Court, COVID, race are topics for first Trump-Biden debate

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will face off on the Supreme Court, the coronavirus pandemic and race and violence in the nation's cities next week when they meet for their first presidential debate.The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates on Tuesday announced the six topics for the first face-to-face event scheduled for Sept. 29 in Cleveland.

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Trump asks Supreme Court for fast action in census case

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for fast action on its effort, blocked by a lower court, to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to determine how many congressional seats each state gets.In court papers filed Tuesday, the administration suggested the court hear arguments in the case in December, potentially with a new justice appointed by President Donald Trump in place.

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Michigan’s ‘tale of two electorates’: Experts say it’s a close, competitive race between Biden and Trump

DETROIT - Four years ago, President Donald Trump did the unthinkable: He cracked the foundation of Michigan’s “blue wall.” Trump accomplished this in a state that had voted Democratic in six consecutive presidential elections from 1992 through 2012.

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Romney OKs voting on court nominee, all but assures approval

WASHINGTON - Utah Republican Sen.

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UNGA 2020: US President Donald Trump says UN “must hold China accountable” for COVD-19 pandemic

U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a virtual address at the United Nations meeting of world leaders on Tuesday, telling delegates the UN “must hold China accountable for their actions,” referring to the coronavirus outbreak.

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Exclusive: One-on-one with President Donald Trump from the White House

DETROIT (FOX 2) - President Donald Trump will sit down Tuesday for an exclusive one-on-one interview to discuss his office's COVID-19 response, how confident he is in the election process, and how he's approaching the Supreme Court vacancy with just 42 days until Election Day, among other topics.FOX 2's Roop Raj will meet with the president at the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 22 for the interview which is set to start at 10:30 a.m. ET on this page.During the 20-minute interview, the president will discuss every pressing item of note that's resonating with voters as we count down to Election Day on Nov.

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The Latest: Trump takes aim at China in UN address

TANZANIA – The Latest from the UN General Assembly (all times EST):10 a.m.WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says the United Nations must hold China “accountable” for failing to contain the coronavirus, which has killed about 200,000 Americans and nearly 1 million around the world.Trump is accusing China of not sharing timely information with the world on the new disease in a taped address to the virtually gathered United Nations General Assembly.Trump says: “The United Nations must hold China accountable for their actions.”Trump is also using his address to tout a pair of recent international accords he helped to broker— one between Kosovo and Serbia and the other between the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Israel — as the United States

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Black voters in Detroit key for Biden, but are they engaged?

DETROIT – Wendy Caldwell-Liddell is tired of waiting for change in Detroit.The nation’s largest Black-majority city has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and its ensuing economic fallout. More than 14,200 COVID-19 cases and 1,500 deaths have been confirmed in the city.So when the 29-year-old Black mother of two thinks about what's at stake for the November presidential election, her answer is simple: Everything.

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Trump aims to use UN address to send strong message to China

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump, who prefers speaking to boisterous crowds, is set to give a prerecorded address to the U.N. General Assembly as he grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, chilly relations between the U.S.

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Coronavirus vaccine likely to be ready for India by early 2021, says scientist

vaccine clinical trials, currently has no local infrastructure in place to go beyond immunizing babies and pregnant women, said Gagandeep Kang, professor of microbiology at the Vellore-based Christian Medical College and a member of the WHO’s Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety.The timing of the vaccine is a contentious subject around the world. In the U.S., President Donald Trump has contradicted a top administration health expert by saying a vaccine would be available by October.

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AP Analysis: US to hit 200K dead; Trump sees no need for regret

President Donald Trump speaks on judicial appointments in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Sept. 9, 2020.

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Judge dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit challenging Nevada mail voting law

LAS VEGAS - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from President Donald Trump's reelection campaign challenging Nevada's new vote-by-mail law, saying the campaign failed to show how it could be harmed by the law.The campaign, which has filed lawsuits in several states over voting rules, had asked the judge to block a new Nevada law that calls for mail-in ballots to automatically be sent to all active Nevada voters, a change prompted by efforts to contain the coronavirus.The campaign has argued the law passed by the Democrat-led state Legislature is unconstitutional, removes election safeguards and would allow people to cast votes after Election Day.People protest against the passage of a mail-in voting bill during a Nevada Republican

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Alone among nations, US moves to restore UN Iran sanctions

WASHINGTON – The United States slapped additional sanctions on Iran on Monday after the Trump administration's unilateral weekend declaration that all United Nations penalties that were eased under the 2015 nuclear deal had been restored, The announcement comes in defiance of the world community, which has rejected U..S. legal standing to impose the international sanctions and sets the stage for an ugly showdown at the annual U.N.

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Justice Ginsburg's death puts Roe v. Wade on the ballot in November

WASHINGTON - It’s been a throwaway line in presidential campaigns for years: Roe v. Wade is on the ballot.This time it is very real.The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg so close to a presidential election and the vacancy it creates on the Supreme Court, coupled with President Donald Trump’s political imperative to energize social conservatives in key states, urgently provided a new frame for Trump’s case for a second term.

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Pressure mounts on GOP senators over filling Ginsburg seat

WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hammered President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to rush a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as pressure mounted on senators to support or oppose a quick vote to fill the seat.As the Senate returned to Washington on Monday, all eyes were on Republicans Mitt Romney of Utah and Chuck Grassley of Iowa for clues to whether Trump and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be able to confirm Ginsburg's replacement anytime soon. A day earlier, Biden had urged unnamed Republicans to join Sens.

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Ginsburg's death puts Roe v. Wade on the ballot in November

It's been a throwaway line in presidential campaigns for years: Roe v. Wade is on the ballot.

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Elected officials face challenge on coronavirus vaccine as Trump rushes production

Donald Trump is escalating his promise for a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day.But across America, Democrats, independents and even some Republicans do not trust his administration to produce a safe and effective vaccine on such an aggressive timeline. Such hesitancy threatens to exacerbate the public health risk for millions of Americans whenever a vaccine is released.With the Nov.

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Democrats face quandary on vaccine support as election nears

NEW YORK – President Donald Trump is escalating his promise for a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day. But across America, Democrats, independents and even some Republicans do not trust his administration to produce a safe and effective vaccine on such an aggressive timeline.

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US to have COVID-19 vaccine for every citizen by next April, believes Trump

Donald Trump said on Friday he expects to have available enough doses of a coronavirus vaccine for every American by April.

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How Ginsburg's death could reshape the presidential campaign

NEW YORK – A presidential campaign that was already tugging at the nation’s most searing divides has been jolted by the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, potentially reshaping the election at a moment when some Americans were beginning to cast ballots.For months, the contest has largely centered on President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus, the biggest public health crisis in a century that has badly damaged his prospects for reelection as the U.S.

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Coronavirus: Trump says they’re looking at reopening Canada-U.S. border possibly by end of year

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Europe’s monitoring of U.S. presidential election shrinks drastically amid coronavirus

Nov. 3 presidential election and now will deploy just 30 because of the coronavirus pandemic.The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe — which has observed U.S.

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USDA plans additional $14B for farmers reeling from virus

DES MOINES, Iowa – The federal government said Friday that it will give farmers an additional $14 billion to compensate them for the difficulties they have experienced selling their crops, milk and meat because of the coronavirus pandemic.The U.S. Department of Agriculture released details of its plan that it said will provide “financial assistance that gives producers the ability to absorb increased marketing costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic." President Donald Trump first mentioned the aid in a speech Thursday night in Wisconsin, a presidential battleground state that is considered vital for his chances to win a second term.The additional payments illustrate the importance of farmers as a voting block to Trump's reelection.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

Coronavirus: U.S. AG Barr compares imposing national lockdown to slavery

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